Dog is Love – AUDIO
Speaking about his book, Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You, Professor Clive Wynne introduces a new sub-series of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcasts on “Dogs and Kids” with a discussion of the amazing capacity of dogs to love us. As an adult animal behavior scientist, Prof Wynne studied dogs’ amazing capacity to make emotional bonds with humans, and he describes experiments demonstrating this bond in his discussion with Dr. Harrison. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and...
read moreMeet the Author with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau – VIDEO
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD met with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the Library, and the online audience to discuss her new book Memory’s Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel (IPBooks, 2020) at our Meet the Author program recorded via ZOOM on Jan 10, 2022. A couple of copies of autographed books are still on sale in the library. Click here to purchase your copy for $20 (shipping cost is included in the price). Follow this link to watch other webinars and interviews in our Meet the Author, The Voice of Experience, and Kravitz...
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Understanding and Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm – VIDEOS
BPSI Member, Mark Schechter, MD, clears up some common misconceptions about suicide and self-harm in these recently recorded videos. Click on the players below to watch. Mark Schechter, MD is the Chair of Psychiatry at North Shore Medical Center, and a part-time Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a member of the Boston Suicide Study Group. He teaches about suicide in the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean residency program, and has published papers...
read moreTemperament- AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Nancy Snidman, Director of the Child Development Unit of the University of Massachusetts Boston, talks about the highly sensitive child in terms of temperament, revealing the large overlap of sensory processing problems and high reactive temperament. Professor Snidman also has some important tips for parents of children with high reactive temperament. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston...
read moreThe Voices of Experience: Jim Herzog and Lora Tessman – VIDEO
Jim Herzog and Lora Tessman met in the BPSI library on Oct 22, 2021 to talk about their life, work, and important contributions to psychoanalysis for our Voice of Experience series of video interviews. Jim Herzog, MD, is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a supervisory analyst at...
read moreSelective Mutism – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Katherine Schwab discusses the interesting phenomenon of children who do not speak a word at school but are chatterboxes at home. Katherine is a therapist who works with these children and has some creative ideas about how to help them come out of their shells outside of their safety zone. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent...
read moreAyelet Barkai and Ruth Drasin – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The recipients of the 2021 Kravitz Award, Ayelet Barkai, MD and Ruth Drasin, PhD, talk about their work co-directing the Boston chapter of the national organization A Home Within in an interview to Patricia Potter, MD, recorded in the BPSI Library on Oct 1, 2021. The mission of A Home Within is captured in the organization’s motto, “One Child, One Therapist, For as Long as It Takes.” In order to address the trauma and disruption inherent in the foster care system, the organization pairs a foster child (or adult who had been in the foster care...
read moreDo Infants React to Mothers Wearing Masks? – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, BPSI Member and renowned infant researcher Ed Tronick discusses a recent study of infants’ responses to their mothers wearing masks. Tronick created the famous still face experiment that demonstrated the sensitivity of infants to their mother’s contingent responses, primarily communicated by facial expression. In this study, he wanted to know whether mothers’ masking during the pandemic had an effect on their infants’ responses to their mothers when the mothers were masked....
read moreDeborah Choate and Karen Melikian – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipients of 2015 and 2017, Deborah Choate, MD and Karen Melikian, PhD talk about their community work in a video interview recorded on Aug 20, 2021 in the BPSI Library. Deborah Choate, MD, received the Kravitz Award in 2015. For many years she was a psychiatric/psychoanalytic consultant with the homeless and disadvantaged community, volunteering at organizations that helped women who are homeless or living in poverty to obtain housing, education, and economic independence. She is currently a Clinical Assistant...
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